The Spinning Jenny
Category: Other
Updated: 1 Mar 2020
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Created byConor McCreath
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1764
James Hargraeves invents
the Spinning Jenny1770
Hargreaves makes
patent for Spinning
Jenny1773
The first all-cotton textiles
were produced in factories1778
James Hargreaves dies1778
20,000 Spinning Jenny
machines used in
Britain1768
Threatened workers
broke into Hargreaves
house and destroyed
the machines1810
The spinning jenny
is replaced by the
Spinning Mule1768
The spinning frame
gets a patent. This
is what the spinning
jenny was based off.
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